Word: backstretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong second in the early going, Tomy Lee took the lead in the backstretch but dropped back to second behind Sword Dancer at the mile mark. Admitted Jockey Willie Shoemaker: "I thought we were through. I hollered to Willie Boland (on Sword Dancer), 'I hope you win it.'" But Tomy Lee shrugged off his breeding, roared back in the last dozen strides to win by a nose. He was the first foreign-born horse to win the derby since 1917. His archenemy, First Landing, was a well-beaten third...
Death was only seconds away. Riding nose to tail pipe, the tight-packed cars skittered around two turns and scrapped all the way down the backstretch. "Nobody was giving anybody anything," said Driver Shorty Templeman. On the very next turn, Ed Elisian's John Zink Special slammed into the pole car and spun out of control; 13 other cars piled up behind him in the worst traffic mess in Brickyard history. "I just went into the turn too hard," said Elisian later. "The brakes locked on me, and I went onto the grass. There wasn't much...
...when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when he won by two lengths. Behind him, outclassed Iron Liege...
Third man Jim Cairns made up ten yards with anchorman Bill Morris passing his Tiger rival on the backstretch to finish second, 15 yards behind Yale...
...couple of Olympic champions, Ron Delany and Tom Courtney, ran away with everything but the starter's gun at the 68th annual Boston Athletic Association games. Loping along just back of the pacesetters in the 600-yd. run, Fordham Alumnus Courtney shifted into high on the backstretch of the next-to-last lap, shot into the lead and finished 20 yds. in front of Villanova's Joe Gaffney, who now runs for the Army. It all seemed so easy that even Tom was surprised to hear his time: a world-record-equaling 1:09.5. In the mile...